What do you want to say when you look back on your life?

Socrates

Do you want to say you did 20%? 40%? Someday, at the moment of death, your whole life will pass before you. In a few fractions of a second-because time no longer applies-you will see many incidents form your life in order to learn. You will review your life with two questions in your consciousness: Could I have shown a little more courage in these moments? Could I have shown a little more love?

The Initiated Male – Why you Feel like A Grown Up Boy

A 12 year old man of the Amazon, Brazil

The Initiated male makes the case with the support of evolutionary biology/psychology of why men today are grown up boys and how adventure travel can be the modern day rites of passage that has been the test for responsible manhood for millions of years.

How do I set a goal and actually keep it?

Engenocha, Brazil

We all spend the majority of our lives trying to achieve goals? In an existential sense, goals are what fuels our purpose to live our lives.  Unfortunately, we have a bad habit of fighting the external world, when really the arena to achieve is fought inside ourselves. As kids, 30% of us learn to use [...]

Stop Your Complaining and Start Feeling Powerful and Good

Homeless in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Great human beings respond rather than react and always take constructive action as their first recourse. NEWS FLASH: The art of complaining has reached record levels in the United States and is spreading into a world wide epidemic.  It needs to stop.  It needs to stop right now and it is one of THE core psychological dumping [...]

Story Behind Our New Logo

Ryan Tattoo

So what’s the meaning of our new logo?  Well, it’s actually a pretty cool story… I (Ryan Teixeira) just left Colombia after hanging out with a lady friend for a few weeks to head back north for surfing…Nicaragua was the goal.  During my time with my friend I was also working on my personal mission [...]

1st Place Stuart Rohnstock

Stuart 1st Place!

Congratulations Stuart!  We understand how tough this sport is and are so very proud of you sporting our colors.  We can’t wait to hear about the next one! Race Report The course was mostly dry, dusty, rocky double-track. 10.5 miles and 1500 feet of climbing per lap. The first lap was so dusty that there [...]

Amazon – Not Very Adventurous

Amazon is 5 km wide

A tourist attraction will peak your eye’s fancy, however adventure will nourish your heart and soul with the discovery of the unkown. The Amazon expedition is retracted from the 14 Days to Explore the Magic adventure; it was just not adventurous and fun enough! We are proud to say that living among the indigenous natives of the Amazon, [...]

What is Respectful Travel?

Mancora, Peru

One of the greatest take-aways from traveling for Westerners is their surprise to how they are so “welcomed” by the people of countries that have so much less. It’s a beautiful and life changing experience, vital to always be a respectful traveler and a top priority of what we teach and encourage on our adventures.

Urban Escapes…Good Times

bigkayak

So the story is this…about four months ago after awaking to the howler monkeys in the jungle outside of town in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua….I needed to get some biz done before heading out to my mid-morning surf sesh. I was pretty content with a cup of fresh cowboy coffee, a yawn with a [...]

Feel Like a Million Dollars?

Machu Picchu VIII

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.  – Clare Boothe Luce  This past Friday we posted a little blurb  on Facebook encouraging fans to Practice Courage and followed it up with a FEEL GOOD video having a bit of that message in there too.  And today, is the day to fully [...]

The BIG Red Button

Reset

Do you wish there was a big red “RESET” button you can push that would allow you to “Start Over” ?  I had no idea at the time, that what I stumbled upon was the secret sauce, kind of a big RED button all on it’s own.  It was February 2006, I was wandering about for [...]

Hostile Territory-The Ridge Run

View of CR from Nicaragua I

You want adventure? You may not be ready, in fact I suggest you don’t go. It’s tough. My guess is that if you live through what I experienced yesterday unscathed, you will grab the quickest flight back to where you came from,crawl into you comfy bed in the burbs and thank those brave souls who [...]